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No one knows where America’s helipads are, except this neural network

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In 2016, Uber published its Uber Elevate White Paper , setting its aspirations on providing on-demand air taxis from San Francisco to San Jose for about $130. Alexander | June 1, 2016 Training a c onvolution neural network (CNN) to spot helipads The solution I developed rests on retraining a CNN to recognize helipads in aerial images.